Vocabulary Shout-Out

We were thrilled to read an interview yesterday in which Drew Barrymore talks about how she "fell in love with the dictionary." Turns out, she's as into words as we are.
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The adjective empyrean, pronounced "em-PEER-ee-an," can describe a religious idea of heaven. It can also describe the sky itself, or something that is awe-inspiring, like the empyrean beauty of the Himalayas. The phrase the empyrean means "the heavens" or "the sky," or in Greek cosmology, the highest, fiery sphere of heaven, empyros in Greek, and the root of empyrean.